I think the developers of these functions don't intend for us to be messing with the grids, or haven't gotten around to making it easy for us.
However, it can be done.
ax = gca; % Get current axes
kids = allchild(ax); % Get the lines and text and whatever else
kids will have all the stuff you'll be interested in (try entering it in the command window without the semicolon). We're looking for things that have their handle visibility set to 'off',
which is everything but the plots.
invis = strcmp(get(kids,'handleVisibility'),'off');
Now, to hide absolutely everything, you could do...
set(kids(invis),'Visible','off');
To instead only hide some things (like spokes), first find those things.
There's definitely a more elegant way to do this, but this is all I've got right now.
lineidx = find(invis & strcmp(get(kids,'Type'),'line'));
spokes = false(size(kids));
for idx = 1:numel(lineidx)
kd = kids(lineidx(idx));
if numel(kd.XData) == 2
spokes(lineidx(idx)) = true;
end
end
set(kids(spokes),'Visible','off');
It looks as if, in many cases, the spokes will be found at kids(end-14:end-9), in which case you could disregard the preceding block and simply:
set(kids(end-14:end-9), 'Visible','off');
Does that help?
